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RE: [css3-grid-layout] Renaming implicitly named lines, reverse grid indices

From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:10 +0000
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <D51C9E849DDD0D4EA38C2E539856928412E57801@TK5EX14MBXC214.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
± From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] 
± Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:10 AM
± 
± The Grid Layout spec implicitly defines 'start' and 'end' as the first and last lines of the 
± grid, respectively. While this might make sense for grid columns, it conflicts with our 
± logical naming scheme when applied to grid rows. Therefore, if such keywords are needed, I 
± suggest using 'first' and 'last' (as used by one of the examples for explicitly-named 
± lines).

Are there other places where "first" and "last" are used with similar meaning?

Renaming for consistency elsewhere would be a good reason. 

Renaming because there is something wrong with grid having symmetrical model in 2 dimensions seems questionable. We have chosen to use start/end for 'flex-align' *because* it is what grid is using - with same motivation. Why would we suddenly become shy of naming grid lines to match alignment directions??
Received on Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:26:57 UTC

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